Research Interests:

Autism
Reading Disorders
Psycholinguistics
Prosody
Speech Perception
Acoustics
Eye-tracking

Education

Ph.D. University of Rochester, 2007 (Clinical Psychology)
M.A. University of Rochester, 2004 (Psychology)
A.B. Princeton University, 2000 (Psychology, Linguistics)

Selected Publications

Diehl, J.J., Watson, D., McDonough, J., Gunlogson, C., Young, E.C., & Bennetto, L. (in press). An acoustic analysis of prosody in high-functioning autism. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Diehl, J.J. & Paul, R. (in press). Commentary on the neurobiological bases of prosodic disorders and their assessment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Invited manuscript.

Arnold, J.A., Bennetto, L., & Diehl, J.J. (in press). The cat vs. he: How adolescents with and without autism choose referential expressions. Cognition. Manuscript in press.

South, M., Diehl, J.J., & Schultz, R.M (in press). Neurobiology: fMRI. In E. Hollander, A. Kolevzon, and J. Coyle (Eds.,) Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders. American Psychiatric Publishing: Arlington, VA.

Diehl, J.J., Bennetto, L., Watson, D., Gunlogson, C., & McDonough, J. (2008). Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to prosody processing in high-functioning autism. Brain and Language, 106, 144-152.

Palumbo, D., & Diehl, J.J. (2007). Managing attentional disorders. In Hunter & Donders (Eds.), Pediatric Neuropsychology Interventions (pp. 253-286). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Diehl, J.J., Bennetto, L., & Young, E.C. (2006). Story recall and narrative coherence of high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 83-98.

Young, E.C., Diehl, J.J., Morris, D., Hyman, S.L., & Bennetto, L. (2005). The use of two language tests to distinguish pragmatic language problems in children with autism spectrum disorders. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36, 62-72.